MoMo Berlin Philosophical Circle Talk

The topic of her talk is Green Robots, Anthropocenic AI: Anthropological Provocations on the Role of Robotics in Climate Change Mitigation.

As artificial intelligence (AI) systems scale across domains, their operation increasingly depends on vast, energy-intensive infrastructures whose environmental and epistemic conditions remain largely invisible to end users. This results in everyday use of AI which heavily leans towards the trivial – from preferring AI mode in simple searches to producing waltzing cat videos. At the same time, climate robotics can help scale environmental action, if only deployed at scale. Midst the paradoxes, absurdities, despair, and transformational promises yet to be fulfilled in the environmental AI and robotics space, this talk leads up to several provocations. Among them: Can AI and robotics commons be achieved? What is the role of culture and human-robot relations in this task? What answers can anthropology give that go beyond the reified prescriptions of ethical and responsibility frameworks?

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